Body-mass index and all-cause mortality - Authors' reply.

Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Shilpa N Bhupathiraju, Frank B Hu, John Danesh, Richard Peto, Sarah Lewington, Global BMI Mortality Collaboration

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

1citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

As time flies by: Investigating cardiac aging in the short-lived Drosophila model.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular basis of disease · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Emanuele Di AngelantonioDepartment of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK.

Shilpa N BhupathirajuHarvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Frank B HuHarvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

John DaneshDepartment of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK. Electronic address: jd292@medschl.cam.ac.uk.

Richard PetoNuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Sarah LewingtonNuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Global BMI Mortality Collaboration

Funding

British Heart Foundation RG/08/014/24067Medical Research Council MC_UU_12026/3Medical Research Council MR/L003120/1

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Body Mass IndexObesityHumans

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PMID28612745

DOI10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31369-7

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